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Memo to the Next President: Challenges Facing the U.S. in a Complex World

September 26, 2016

Join us on Oct. 5 for an evening talk with Ambassador and Harvard Kennedy School Professor Nicholas Burns, who will speak on significant foreign policy challenges for the next president of the United States.

The next president of the United States will inherit leadership in a world defined by uncertainty. From continuing upheaval in the Middle East to an assertive Russia to the rise of China, significant foreign policy challenges loom. How he or she responds will shape our world for decades to come.

When: WEDNESDAY, Oct. 5, 2016, 8:00 p.m.

Where: Kane Hall (KNE), Room 220 

Ambassador and Harvard Kennedy School Professor Nicholas Burns

Ambassador and Harvard Kennedy School Professor Nicholas Burns

Nicholas Burns is the Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School. He also serves on Secretary of State John Kerry’s Foreign Policy Advisory Board. In a long diplomatic career, he was U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, U.S. Ambassador to NATO and to Greece, State Department Spokesman and he also served on the National Security Council staff for Presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush.

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